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With Nine Advanced M501G1 Gas Turbines and Some of the Industry’s Toughest Performance Targets, Florida Power & Light Company’s West County Energy Center Will Serve Up Power Big Enough for Florida… and Clean Enough for California.

At full output in 2011, Florida Power & Light Company’s West County Energy Center will be the largest combined cycle plant in the United States.

As Real As It Gets

A billion dollars is a lot of money.

3,750 MW is lot of power.

And 30 years is a daunting look-ahead when you’re choosing the generating technologies you and your customers will be counting on to get there…and beyond.

For a major utility, few commitments come with higher stakes attached. But with 4. 5 million customers, projected demand increases and a high-profile commitment to dramatically reduce plant carbon emissions system-wide, Florida Power & Light Company knew that any plan for the future would need to be based on a high-capacity, cost-efficient, environmentally benign generating technology they could implement today.

The big question was never what to do, but how to do it right.

And a big part of the answer was “Mitsubishi.”

Proof, Not Promises

As one of the most rigorously validated gas turbines on the market, Mitsubishi’s M501G1 supplies the proven reliability and performance required to anchor West County Energy Center’s three-unit complement of muscular, gas-fired 3x1 combined cycle power plants.

With ISO-rated output of >260 MW, the G1 delivers the highest capacity in the industry.

With dual gas/distillate capability and combined cycle efficiencies exceeding 59%, it offers economy and versatility in the face of unpredictable fuel markets.